--- title: Weight for weight, some spider silk is stronger than steel and far s… — Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs · tree and pragmatics description: Weight for weight, some spider silk is stronger than steel and far stretchier, so it soaks up the crash of a flying insect without snapping, but a real thread is far too thin to hold a person. Who acts: spider silk, silk, flying insect, real thread. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spider silk, silk, flying insect, real thread), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs.lesson:2 # text = Weight for weight, some spider silk is stronger than steel and far stretchier, so it soaks up the crash of a flying insect without snapping, but a real thread is far too thin to hold a person. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 6 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 10 than than ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 14 stretchier stretchy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 soaks soak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 amod _ _ 25 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 without without SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 snapping snap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 35 too too ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:xcomp 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some spider silk | | | | | than steel; Weight for weight *obl*; strong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | some spider silk *not said here* | | | | | far *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **soak up** | present | silk | the crash of a flying insect | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent crash=Source | | 4 | **fly** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **snap** | gerund | a flying insect *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | a real thread | | | | | far, thin *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **hold** | to-infinitive | a real thread *not said here* | a person | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | | 8 | **crash** | | a flying insect | | | | | | nom crash «event intransitive»: of=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs.lesson:2`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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